Cluj-Napoca

Cluj-Napoca is the fourth largest city in Romania, and is one of the most important academic, cultural, industrial and business centres in Romania.

The city lies in the centre of the Transylvania region and is as old as AD 106, when the Roman Empire conquered Dacia and established the settlement Napoca. However, the first written mention of the name Cluj was in 1213 under the Latin name Castrum Clus. In 1956, the Hungarian Revolution led to the Romanian authorities "unifying" the local Babes (Romanian) and Bolyai (Hungarian) universities. Hungarians remained the majority of the city's population until the 1960s, when Romanians began to outnumber Hungarians, due to the influx of population that was a consequence of the policy of forced industrialisation of the city.

On October 16, 1974, the city celebrated 1850 years from its first mention as Napoca, and the government changed the name of the city by adding "Napoca" to it.